Weird urine smell on Jackson and SKB

Hey guysI have recently purchased a Jackson Soloist SL3 in a SKB jackson Hard caseThe inside of the case smells dreadful like urine and so dies the guitar. The smell on the body is no where near as strong as the smell on the neck, Its not like strong strong but I can just smell it when I play, this is bothering me, What can I do about it? Cheers.The fretboard is rosewood by the way

Lemon Oil will not harm the body, your guital has car paint on it, it won't damage. You can just whipe the body with a dampened cloth and even some soap. Just don't touch metal.

Do you wash your car with Dunlop 65? I don't think so...

wut.

There's so much wrong with this post it's not funny. TS, DO NOT use water to clean your guitar. Your guitar isn't a car, it's made out of wood. The lemon oil is traditionally used to condition the wood on the fretboard. No it won't hurt your finish, but a proper body cleaner is better.

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That's the advantage of being such a distance from Yianni. I can continue to live my life without fear of stumbling upon his dark terror.

His Jackson has a polyurethane paint and NOT a nitrocellulose one. This is the same stuff applied to a car and it does NOT breath so there is no connection from the top of the paint to the wood of the body. Water cannot get in especially when you just use a dampened cloth (which means: dont soak it but make it moist).

When you play guitar good you sweat, does that harm your guitar? Not on a polyurethane finish...

Water COULD damage a guitar with nitrocellulose laquer when you soak it, but hell, I would even clean my '52 RI telly body with nitro paint with a dampened cloth, it will do no harm (just don't soak it)

No but then again cars are made from aluminium/mild steel etc, relatively resistant to corrosion, however, wood is more of a complicated thing, tends to absorb water, i know it does have a lacquer on it but guitars dont come cheap etc... need the safest option haha

With Dunlop 65 we meant the guitar polish bottle. You don't need it, a dampened cloth does the same thing. You DO need the lemon oil though, since your fretboard will dry out in time and you need to clean/remoisturise it.

In my opinion the guitar polish body cleaner is a waste of money.

If you used your guitar for a bit and you want it to SHINE though, a wax treatment would be great. However, since its car paint you can just rub your regular turtle carnuba wax on it you use for your car instead of overpriced lesser quality Dunlop 65 wax.

With Dunlop 65 we meant the guitar polish bottle. You don't need it, a dampened cloth does the same thing. You DO need the lemon oil though, since your fretboard will dry out in time and you need to clean/remoisturise it.

In my opinion the guitar polish body cleaner is a waste of money.

Please stop recommending this.

A bottle of polish is worth nothing in the scheme of things (they're what, $5?) and they last for ages. I bought a bottle of 65 4 years ago and am only half way through it. It's not that much to make sure you're cleaning it properly and without harm.

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That's the advantage of being such a distance from Yianni. I can continue to live my life without fear of stumbling upon his dark terror.

Whatever you want! Do you wear a belt and suspenders at the same time so your pants doensn't fall off too :P?

You recommend a product because you use it because you are scared you will harm your guitar with a dampened cloth.How did people clean their guitars when Dunlop 65 wasn't around yet? I think with a dampened cloth!

the same thing happened to me, bought a schecter off ebay, the top half of the neck smelled horrid, couldnt tell if it was piss or what and the case smelled of cat piss. the case got tossed and the neck i cleaned a thousand times over with a DAMP cloth of soap and water. you wipe down and then wipe off with a dry towel. i do this with all my guitars at every string change it hurts nothing.

Whatever you want! Do you wear a belt and suspenders at the same time so your pants doensn't fall off too :P?

You recommend a product because you use it because you are scared you will harm your guitar with a dampened cloth.How did people clean their guitars when Dunlop 65 wasn't around yet? I think with a dampened cloth!

And you recommend cleaning guitar with water because you're braindead.

Just because they didn't have it back then, doesn't mean we shouldn't utilise it now? That's like saying "Well, they didn't have penicillin back then and most of them got on fine, so we'll be right." So what if I'm scared it'll potentially ruin my guitar? I don't usually go out of my way to try and do things to stuff I spend a lot of money on.

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That's the advantage of being such a distance from Yianni. I can continue to live my life without fear of stumbling upon his dark terror.

Eppicurt, when you have a gig outside and it starts raining a bit, do you tell the crown to f*ck off and go inside because you think your guitar will damage :P?

Just dry it well with a towel. A dampened cloth doens't even need drying since it will evaporate in a sec.

No. Because I can't avoid not being in the rain and I won't stop a show because of it. I wouldn't be happy about it, but I wouldn't stop. Just because I can avoid a situation doesn't mean I'll avoid it in situations where I can't.

And I don't think it will damage. Standing in the rain with your guitar will not do it any wonders AT ALL. I'm not just talking finish, I'm talking electronics as well.

Stop posting for goodness sake. You're making yourself look silly.

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That's the advantage of being such a distance from Yianni. I can continue to live my life without fear of stumbling upon his dark terror.

Yes it would. Guitar timber is supposed to be as dry as possible. Why do you think they stick them in giant humidifier chambers?

Well 'humidifier' means to add moisture.

I don't know why you're freaking out. I run a damp cloth over my guitar to clean it as well... I don't see how that could possibly damage it. I've been doing it for years with several guitars and I've seen no damage. As RMB said; the polish is water based anyway. If water would damage it, so would the polish.